Selasa, 16 Mei 2017

Protesters across globe rally for women's rights

Trump, in his first speech after the Inauguration, said the media under-counted the size of the crowd for his Friday swearing-in ceremony.

"I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. Sen.

U.S. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!"

Overall, the protesters were law-abiding, with police reporting only four arrests in 21 American cities.

In Boston, 120,000 to 125,000 people protested, according to a police aerial photo analysis cited by a senior Boston Police official.

Washington protest organizers, who originally sought a permit for a gathering of 200,000, said Saturday that as many as a half million people participated, dwarfing Friday's inaugural crowd. We can whine. The metro tweeted Saturday there were 275,000 trips taken Saturday by 11 a.m. Elizabeth Warren urged Boston protesters to resist: "We can whimper.

By comparison, on Friday, there were 193,000 trips by 11 a.m., according to Metro.

Not everyone agrees. And they said, Donald Trump did not draw well," the President said.. John Lewis, a major Trump critic.

CNN could not independently confirm any of these crowd estimates.

"Now, that's not bad," Trump said. More than 470,000 people had taken the Metro, the Washington subway system, by 1 p.m., a weekend ridership record. Police said the crowd there was too big for the march route and could not proceed because "it would be like a snake eating its tail."

The numbers are lower than what the system saw in 2009 and 2013 during Obama's inaugurations: 1.1 million trips in 2009 and 782,000 in 2013.

'Strength in numbers'

The march organizers believe more people came out Saturday for the protests than for Trump's inaugural events on Friday.

In Athens, Greece, protesters included refugees from Elliniko Camp, located in th e old Athens airport.

There was even a protest in Antarctica -- about 30 eco-minded tourists and non-government scientists aboard a ship in international waters hoisted signs saying "Penguins for peace" and "Seals for science," organizers said.

"Sister marches" happened outside the United States, too. Nobody was arrested in Washington.

People gathered to demonstrate in most major cities around the world, including London; Tel Aviv; Melbourne, Australia; Pristina, Kosovo; Moscow; Berlin and Mexico City -- often in front of US embassies.

The protesters, which included many men, hit the streets for different reasons, among them health care, the future of the Affordable Care Act, the e nvironment and income equality. In Atlanta, 60,000 people marched with US Rep. Friday through its closing at midnight.

In Los Angeles, more than 100,000 people marched, police said. "But it's a lie," adding that the inauguration drew significantly more than 250,000 people.

Later Saturday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called his first press briefing and questioned the media's reporting on crowd sizes, saying the Trump inauguration was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."

But Metro confirms numbers first reported in the Washington Post showing that 570,557 riders took trips between the subway system's opening at 4 a.m. So many people crammed into the streets that "our march turned into a stand," said Ellen Crafts, who handled public relations for the event.

Demonstrators in New York City marched toward Trump Tower -- the President's main residence when he's not in the White House -- but were blocked at Fifth Avenue. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people. I'm like, wait a minute. I made a speech